Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banffshire

CANDIDATE : Lethem

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Gordon Lethem, now farming in Esk-dailemuir, Dumfriesshire, was educated at Edinburgh and Grenoble Universities, and at s?hools of Oriental languages in Paris and London, and is a barrister. He was the first administrator of the German Cameroons after the 1914-18 war and was successively Governor of the Seychelles, the Leeward Islands, and British Guiana. He took part in the negotiations with America for the destroyers-for-air bases deal. He is a K.C.M.G. and a Knight of the Order of St. John.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fife East

CANDIDATE : Freeman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. A. Freeman, aged 21, who lives at Hampstead, was educated in London, France, and Canada, and more recently has been studying at St. Andrew’s University. He is president of the University Liberal Association and on the general council of the Scottish Liberal Party.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bothwell

CANDIDATE : Cadzow

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Cadzow is a native of Bothwell and partner in a Glasgow paint firm. During the war he served in the Royal Navy and was mentioned in dispatches for demolition work at the time of Dunkirk. Later he went to the Admiralty and at the end of the war was at Naples as staff officer (plans) to the naval commander.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Midlothian and Peeblesshire

CANDIDATE : Gilmour

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. W. Gilmour is 45 and a native of Lanarkshire. A member of Peebles Town Council, to which he was elected in 1937, he was at one time a mining surveyor. In the 1945 General Election he was organizer for the Co-operative Party candidates in Dumfriesshire.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Renfrewshire West

CANDIDATE : Maclay

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. S. Maclay, who is 45, entered Parliament in 19?0 as member for the former Montrose Burghs constituency, and retained the seat at the 1945 election. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Production in 1945. He is the Leader of the National Liberal Party in the House of Commons. A son of the first Baron Maclay, he is interested in shipping and led the British Merchant Shipping Mission to Washington during the war. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bermondsey

CANDIDATE : Mellish

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. Mellish, aged 37, entered Parliament in 1946, as member for Rotherhithe. Appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty in 1947, he, with others, was required to resign in June, 1949, for his vote on the Ireland Bill. He served in the Royal Engineers (Dock Section) during the war, and was demobilized as a captain. An official of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. On the direction of Mr. Attlee 30,000 copies of a speech by Mr. Mellish in Parliament on Communist influences in the London dock strike in 1949 were distributed among dockers.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chelsea

CANDIDATE : Robertson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. C. Robertson, aged 57, barrister, served for 12 years as district and sessional judge in Burma. Placed on special duty with the Burma Government in Simla, he later joined the staff of Sir Herbert Ranee as deputy chief judicial officer, military administration, Burma.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Greenwich

CANDIDATE : Reeves

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Reeves, aged 53, had fought two unsuccessful contests before becoming M.P. for the division in 1945. He was founder and chairman of the Camberwell Labour Party and became vice-chairman of the Society for Improving Relations between Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. He is a member of the national executive of the Labour Party, and of the committee of inquiry into the B.B.C.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hampstead

CANDIDATE : Watson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. S. Watson is an industrial consultant, with experience in Canada, the United States, and other countries. He was born in 1896, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Administration and of the Incorporated Sales Managers’ Association. He is a Liveryman and Freeman of the City of London.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kensington North

CANDIDATE : Caplan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Caplan, who was born in 1909, is a barrister specializing in commercial law. He was educated at the Grocers’ Company School and London University. During the war he became a major in an anti-tank regiment. He was Assistant Adjutant, General Allied Land Forces, South-East Asia. His wife is also a barrister.

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